The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-05
cast about.

A Nel0 Yorker NTH the racing craze.
In another group were half a dozen New
York men who exhibited the racing crazs
at its apex. They were clad in the most
elaborate of English race-going toggery.
One wore a light derby hat with veil
wound around it and check suit of clothes
of decidedly horsey pattern. His white
waistcoat was embroidered with blue horse
shoes, and a diamond-studded saddle pin
was in his yellow scarf. He wore very
small patent leather boots with white duck
oyergaiters, dogskin gloves and a single
glass. A pair of field glasses was
strung by Ta, strap across his should
ers, and an ivory betting book with
| crest deliberately chased in gold on
the cover protruded from the outer pocket
of his coat. There were number of ihen
clad in such toggery as this, and most of
| them were heavy betters and well up in rae
ing gossip. A few of the heavyweight
horse owners chatted quietly over near tne
port rail. They were all of them more or
less known club men and patrons of sport
ing events, and, singularly enough, they
were dressed so much alike that they might
| almost have held a consultation before set
ting out that morning. They wore dark
coats, high hats, light trousers and the con-
ventional field glasses They leaned on
their canes with hands that were incased in
dark-hued gloves, and INDUCED in good
deal of quiet chatting at the expense of the
| oyerdreSsed Younger clubmen The Earl of
| Loudan We're cheap little sack suit and
| spent most of the time i'll conversing about
the enormous mistake he had made in COM
| ing out with pair of light boots instead of
| heavy ones. 1t was IA subject that did not
arouse a thrilling amount of interest
| Maurice Bernhardt, the son of the divine
Sara, was clad like a schoolboy in a blue
sack SUIT. that showed off. his athletic pro-
lalx
! from one group of men to the other and
laughed agreeably with all of them. 1t is
easy to understand the popularity of
such man. His face has pasty sort of
| color--or rather no color at all-but his
eyes are bright and he is exceedingly
amable and good-naturned. He already
has hosts of friends in New York, and he
speaks English quite as well as he does
! French
All the mon about town that are such
| familiar fixtures of the cafes and restaurants
of New York turned up at the race meet
! ing looking precisely as they always do in
| New York. In about minute after they
entered the grounds most of them had sue
ceeded in finding the bar, where their de-
| yotional exercises We're continued without
| Interruption Every little while a bowling
swell would drift along in the crowd He
| was usually dressed in imitation of the
! Prince of Wales fayorite costume for race
meetinss;a snug, tight fitting and square
Shouldered frocic coat, light trousers, high
hat and a stunning boutonniere He usually
wore white gloves and walked along pen
| sively with bis betting book in his hands, as
they were clasped behind bis back At in
tervals be would draw out his field glasses
and study the distant horses ponderously,
while the crowd looked at him with more or
less approval. Often, standing side by side
with such man would be ragged, ill
kempt and alt-shaven old horseman, who
was bowed to with great reverence by the
jockeys, and who, you We're apt TO find out
later was one of the heaviest plungers on
the stretch